Caption Contest: After Beerestroika

posted at 6:55 pm on July 31, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

One of these men was accused of having an animus towards the other by the third man in the picture, a self-proclaimed friend of the second. Does this picture corroborate either of those assertions? Doesn’t look like it to me, unless someone wants to argue that James Crowley was attempting a tackle on Henry “Skip” Gates after Beerestroika behind Barack Obama’s back. The picture gives a revealing look at the dynamics between the three men, so much so that Allahpundit and I have been getting a number of e-mails suggesting a caption contest.

Looks like a good idea to me. What caption would you add to this denouement of the most famous beer summit since August Busch met his first hop?

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Actually, this photo illustrates, quite well, how high ranking blacks have ignored the white mans attempt to help the middle class blacks.
And this caption shows how careless Obama is for his own race.

Crowley (aloud): Are you okay, sir?
Gates (thinking): If I fall, I’ll have Sonia all over you and yo mamma’s ass.
Obama (thinking): It’s good to be the king. I wish Rahm woulda let me wear the robe and crown.

I want to take a moment to vent just a little. This picture sums up what 99.9999999% of your peace officers go about doing every day. In this picture you see Crowley doing one of the most basic things that cops do everyday: He’s helping somebody in need.

But more importantly than that he is assisting a man:

1. who went out of his way to make Crowley’s job difficult, to the point that he became so disorderly that he was arrested
2. who insulted his mother
3. who maligned him publicly as a racist
4. whose VIP buddy who occupies the White House called him “stupid.”
5. whose condescending b*tch of a daughter insulted his own (minor) child publicly over her inexperience with makeup
6. and who is, at the moment the picture was taken and at the moment I type this post two days later, still planning to file a frivilous lawsuit against him and his department.

Despite all of this, Sgt. Crowley still did the right thing and helped an infirm old man down the steps while the A**hole in Chief strides ahead of the little people.

The thing is that, despite the fevered rantings of both race baiting douchebags like Gates and POTUS who see Bull Conner hiding behind every tree and the wild eyed libertarian douchebags who think that the 1st Amendment guarantees them an unrestricted right to rudeness to the point of the destruction of civil society, every day men and women put on their badges and go out to do exactly what Crowley did. They help the A**holes of the world when they need it, even though the A**holes will never appreciate and will still try to destroy the officers (sometimes, quite literally) if they get a chance.